Australian Student Visa 500

With a Student Visa (Subclass 500), you can take part in a qualifying course in Australia for as many as five years according to your enrollment. The form of course that you choose will dictate how long you can stay with it in Australia. Keep reading to learn more about the subclass 500 visa.

As a temporary measure, Australia has extended work hours for international students with the visa 500 to tackle workplace shortages. Earlier, Australia did not allow international students to work for over 40 hours every two weeks during a course. As per the recent measure, however, Australia allows a person with this visa to work for beyond 40 hours a fortnight in any economic sector during their course.

The aforesaid student visa 500 extension will be in place up to the time Australia makes another announcement related to it. In the absence of the extension, the said number of hours works as a restriction for the student. You may search with the phrase ‘500 visa work restrictions’ on Google for any related government announcement.

If you are applying for the student visa (Subclass 500), be sure that you are in line with the following requirements. Please keep the following student visa 500 checklist handy so that you can tick off the relevant boxes as and when you meet each requirement.

If you are applying for the student visa (Subclass 500), be sure that you are in line with the following requirements. Please keep the following student visa 500 checklist handy so that you can tick off the relevant boxes as and when you meet each requirement.

• Applying for the visa requires you to be of at least 6 years of age or older if you do not take part in a high school student exchange program and you are a student in a school. You must be under:
• 17 years of age as you start Year 9
• 18 years of age when you start Year 10
• 19 years of age while you start Year 11
• 20 years of age when starting year 12

• Submitting the application also necessitates you to prove that you are enrolled in an Australian course that is full-time and registered on CRICOS (Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students). To prove it, you must present an offer letter or confirmation of enrollment for the course you want to apply for except for in some situations. Under those circumstances, you could offer one of the following pieces of evidence for your enrollment.
• If the Australian Government Department of Defence sponsors you, you must present a letter of support.
• As a high school student exchange program member, you must present an Acceptance Advice of Secondary Exchange Student form.
• If you are training under an Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade-approved course or registered in a course that is full-time-based, you must submit a letter of support.
• If you should stay in Australia as a postgraduate research student at the time of your thesis being marked, you must submit a letter that comes from your institution.
• When you apply for the visa as a person aged less than 18 years, there must be adequate welfare arrangements as you reside in Australia. Will you be 18 years old when you come to Australia? If so, you might not have to produce some of that information.
• You might have to prove that you have enough skills in English to qualify for this visa. The Department of Home Affairs has a tool that will let you know what information you require to prove it. The tool may show that you need not produce a piece of information when submitting your visa application, but the government is likely to ask you to submit it at any period as it processes the application.

If you should prove your skill in English, you must substantiate that you possess either a particular score in a Department of Home Affairs-approved test or an exemption. The visa requires that you have undergone the examination in the two years before the submission of your application. There is a long list of exemptions available for the test; please check the website of the Department of Home Affairs for further information.

• The visa requires you to have adequate health insurance as long as you are staying in Australia unless there is an exemption. It means that you must have Overseas Student Health Cover or OSHC coverage from an eligible insurer in Australia if you have no exemption. Check with the Department of Home Affairs for more information about the health insurance requirement.
• You must have a qualifying visa that is unlike a so-called bridging visa, enforcement visa or criminal justice visa, or apply 28 days into the time:
• You have been having a dependent diplomatic (temporary) visa, student visa, or special purpose visa
• The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has notified you that the cancellation of your visa has been reversed

If you lack a qualifying substantive visa, and have ever had that visa after applying for it in the nation while unlawful, you could not apply for the student visa. The possession of many other visas could disqualify you from applying for it; please check the Department of Home Affairs’ website for more details.

• You must prove that you have enough funds to afford your stay in the nation.
• You must be a valid temporary entrant in Australia and plan on going back home after your studies here.
• You must satisfy what the Australian government requires with regard to character. Check with the Department to know what it will take for you to meet that requirement.
• You must adhere to Australia’s health requirement. To maintain its standards of health, Australia necessitates nearly every applicant to satisfy minimum standards before granting them any form of visa. Meeting this requirement might involve an assessment of your health.
• The visa requires you to sign the statement confirming that you will consider the laws and lifestyle in Australia with respect.
• It also necessitates you to not owe any amount of money to the government at the time of your application.
• The government might not grant you this visa if it had refused or cancelled your visa when you were present in Australia.
• If granting you the student visa subclass 500 is not in your best interest when you are aged under 18 years, the government might not do so.